Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation.(Review)

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This is the first in a new series by Sage Publications devoted to the topic of human dimensions of global change, a worldwide movement to create an interdisciplinary focus on changes in human, social, or environmental systems whose effects go beyond geographic boundaries and require cooperative transboundary thinking and action. It grew out of a special national Academy of Management conference hosted at Case Western University in the spring of 1995 to explore the potential contributions of organization theory and change scholarship to global change research. Its roots go back to a call for assistance that the editors received from the United Nations' International Facilitating Committee for the "Earth Summit," requesting input from organizational experts.

The book is a path-breaking effort at exploring the potential contributions of organization and management theory to the understanding of transboundary attempts to resolve ecological and environmental issues. …

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